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America Bass Tab by Simon & Garfunkel

America bass tab by Simon & Garfunkel

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Tuning: EADG

0:17

Let us be lovers we'll marry our fortunes together

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I've got some real estate here in my bag

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                   So we bought a back of cigarettes, and Mrs Wagner's Pies                      And

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Walked off to look for America

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0:51

Kathy, I said as we boarded a Greyhound in Pittsburgh

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Michigan seems like a dream to me now

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It took me four days to hitchhike from Saginaw

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1:09

I've come to look for America

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Laughing on the bus, playing games with the faces

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She said the man in the gabardine suit was a spy

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I said be careful his bowtie is really a camera

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1:45

Toss me a cigarette I think there's one in my raincoat

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We smoked the last one an hour ago                                                So I looked at the

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Scenery, she read her magazine                                       And the

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Moon rose over an open field

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2:20

Kathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping                                             I'm

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Empty and aching and I don't know why

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E|------------14----------------------------------------------------------------|

Counting the cars on the New Jersey Turnpike they've

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2:37

All come to look for America

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All come to look for America

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All come to look for America

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A|19------19-19----19--16--19------19-19-17------17--17------17--17--19------------------|

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